Autor: Dawn Ronco

I experienced my first severe back pain when I was 19 years old and in college. It took a whole year to try to fix it… I finally went to Duke Hospital for a spinal fusion of the L5-S1. The good news is that the fusion worked. It relieved my pain, and after recuperating for about five months, I went back to college. As time went on, I learned to keep my weight down and to exercise consistently to keep my back happy. Decades later, I experienced a muscle spasm in my back that didn“t release for months. Oh, no… here we go again! This time, there was no surgical means of correction. So, I“ve explored a bunch of alternatives, and a combination of treatments are keeping me active. I“ve discovered that I understand people in pain in a way that I never did before. A person who hasn“t experienced pain cannot truly empathize. I graduated from Duke University, and as a lifelong learner I received a Master“s Degree from Carolina Evangelical Divinity School.